St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-18
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

News has been received in Quebec of
severe earthquake recently felt in County
pIslet. Pieces of rock forty to fifty feet
square were thrown from the mountains,
and some large forest trees were uprooted.
At Erie Pa, the coroner was called to
hold an inquest on the body Of John Lyons,
aged seventy-fve years. Lyons lay in the
middle of the room where he had died the
day before of drunkenness. Near him lay
his wife in drunken stupor In shed lay
little four-year-old grandchild, dying from
poison 1t had been sick tor several days
and in its extremity had eaten poisonous
weed which grew near the shed. The grand
mother, finding it in commissions, gave it a
heavy dose of whiskey. Death resulted while
the child's mother lay in Jail on a charge of
drunkenness.
A colored man who had attempted to as
sault the mother-in-law Of the sheriff OF
Monroe county, Ark, was taken from the
Jail at Clarendon and lynched He con-
fessed his guilt.
The revenue steamer Richard Rush has
sailed from San Francisco for a cruise to
Ounalaska and the Seal Islands, for the pro-
lection of the seal fisheries in Alaskan waters.
Colonel Laforie, an official of the Choctaw
Nation, in the Indian Territory, says the
difficulties there grew out of the killing OF
persons during a drunken row short time
ago, and are not the result of blood prejudice
letter from Santiago de Cuba reports
nearly 400 cases of smallpox there The
deaths from the 1st ult. had mum bered forty
all the victims having been unvaccinated
The disease had appeared at Guantanamo.
While forty persons, of both sexes, were
returning from a picnic, near Cincinnati,
the vehicle upset and its occupants We're
thrown down an embankment. Six were
dangerously injured, and one of them, Miss
Frances Linderman, is not expected to re
cover.
The executive committee of the PrOhibl-
ton party Of New York met in Albany, and
decided to hold the Prohibition State Con
vention at Syracuse on August % and 26.
Arrangements were made to begin speech
making campaign throughout the State i'm
medately after the State convention is held.
Ex-Governor st. John. of Kansas and John
B. Finch, Of Nebraska, will make speeches.
Chairman Wheeler says that the c0nyen-
ton will nominatea a full State ticket.
W. w. Corcoran, the millionaire philan-
thropist of Washington, was stricken with
paralysis of the left arm and left leg while at
his dinner table He felt as if suddenly
struck on the head, and then found that he
could not use the affected limbs. \ con-
sultation of physicians was held, but
the prognosis was not unfavorable,
there having been no noticeable advance of
the paralysis, and Mr.. Corcoran's mind
being perfectly clear. The distinguished
patient is in the eighty-ninth year of his
age.
The funeral of the late Vice President
Wheeler took place at Malone n. Y. Secre-
tary Bayard, by direction of the President,
issued an order that as a mark Of public
respect to his memory the flags upon all
public buildings in Washington be displayed
at half-mast throughout the day of the
funeral.
Count de Montebello and NJ. Nelidotf, the
French and Russian ambassadors respec
lively at Constantinople, have lodged objec-
tiOns of their governments to the ratification
by Turkey of the Anglo-Turkish convention
relative to Egypt. NJ Nelidoff, in commun-
icating his governments objections, limited
that, if the Sultan ratified the convention,
such action might cost him his throne. He
also indirectly charged England with brib-
ing the grand vizier with 100000 sterling
and other palace officials with large amounts,
in order to secure their approval of the con-
vention Sir Henry Wolf the British am
bassador, and the accused officials deny the
charge.
News has been received at Manson, Ia,
that Rev. DR.. Reid, who left that place last
winter to become missionary in Central
Africa, had been killed and eaten by tribe
of cannibals.
4 delayed" explosion at the Cambria
Iron Company's quarries at Birmingham
near Altoona, Pa, resulted in the death of
eight men. Five others were injured one
of them, it is believed, fatally.
x-Governor of South Carolina Franklin
]. Moses, who, in October, 1885, was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment in the
Massachusetts, State prison for forgery, has
been pardoned by Governor Ames. 1t was
represented that Moses was in poor health
and not likely to live long.
The new Pennsylvania revenue act, which
taxes the judgments and mortgages of cor
porations at the rate of three mills on a
dollar, and was expected to increase the
yearly revenue about S1,0O0,OOO, has
been rendered void by the failure of the
president of the Senate to sign it. The gov
ernor had intended approving the bill until
he discovered this.
A letter from Cucuta, Colombia, says:
'Inoculation for yellow fever is proving very
successful. About ten per cent. of the inoc-
ulated patients are attacked by the disease,
but none of them die"
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, has signed
a bill prohibiting pool selling, except on the
grounds of regularly incorporated racing as
sociations, The measure will 60 into effect
on July 1.
The President Of Costa Rica in message
to Congress says that Costa Rica is on the
most friendly terms with the other republics
of Central America, and also alludes favor
ably to the proposed formation Of Central
American confederation. San Salvador re-
fuses to join the union.